Etymograph

English

entertrainment

Blend of entertainment + train.

A blend of entertainment + train

Old French entretenement

Middle English entretenement ‘support, maintenance’

English entertainment

Latin trahō ‘to pull, to draw’

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Vulgar Latin *traginō

Old French trainer ‘to pull out, to draw’

Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’

Middle English trayne ‘train’

English train

Today it means

noun Training designed to be entertaining for the person being trained.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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